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Sources detail Twitter after mass layoffs: key teams gutted, severance packages account for the WARN Act, and an ad hoc Google Docs directory of remaining staff — I. The Snap — The email went out at 5:21 PT PT on Thursday. — For a full week, Twitter employees had waited in hopes …
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Current and former Twitter staff shed light on Elon Musk's “War Room”, which includes Jason Calacanis and David Sacks, tasked with fixing the stagnant business — In his first week as owner, billionaire axed management, began mass job cuts and launched new products
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Twitter rolls out its new Blue subscription, which offers a blue checkmark for $8/month, on iOS and Android in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and UK — Twitter is officially rolling out its new Twitter Blue subscription service, which offers “blue check” verification to everyone for $8/month.
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Elon Musk's focus on Twitter Blue is part of a trend in which consumer tech platforms pivot away from advertising to recurring revenue through subscriptions — Tech's marriage of convenience to the ad industry hits the rocks — Request: Please fill out this survey as I think through what a Rebooting membership plan would look like.
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Sources: 1,300 Starlink units in Ukraine went offline as SpaceX and the US DoD negotiate funding despite Elon Musk claiming the company will continue “for free” — Ukraine's fears that its troops may lose access to Elon Musk's crucial Starlink internet service deepened …
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Q&A with telecom reporter Karl Bode about Gigi Sohn's nomination to the FCC as Comcast and Fox Corp. team up to lobby swing votes in the Senate against her — How often do the parent companies of Fox News and MSNBC team up? … Today, we're just talking about a problem.
Tweets: @karlbode, @starfire2258, @reckless, @handnf, @commoncause, and @charlesarthur
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
A look at 12 years of Rust, a side project programming language that matured into a robust ecosystem, as developers praise its security, ease, and performance — Rust makes it impossible to introduce some of the most common security vulnerabilities. And its adoption can't come soon enough.
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Elon Musk says Twitter suffered “a massive drop in revenue” due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, despite doing “everything” to “appease the activists” — Chief of social-media company cites activist groups pressuring advertisers, as many staffers brace to lose jobs
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| Paul Kiernan / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenSecrets: the crypto industry gave $73M in the 2022 US midterms, up from $13M in 2020; FTX has become the third-largest source of 2022 campaign contributions — Industry seeks to gain influence in Washington as regulators increase scrutiny of digital assets
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Sources: Apple is building a live TV ad network and talking to ad partners as part of its deal to stream Major League Soccer games starting in February 2023 — Apple Inc. is building an advertising network for live television as part of its deal to stream Major League Soccer games next year …
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| Zeke Faux / Bloomberg: |
El Salvador's Bitcoin “revolution” is failing miserably and behind the debacle are crypto evangelists from wealthier countries who cheered on President Bukele — On an estuary along the coast of El Salvador, a few miles west of the Conchagua volcano, about 70 families live in a settlement called Flor de Mangle.
Tweets: @leomschwartz, @realmaxkeiser, @tgarcianyc, @bw, @skinosian, and @mdudas
| Jordan Pearson / VICE: |
As chess explodes on Twitch, a look at Chess.com's Global Championship, its first in-person event since 2018, and “fair play” measures amid a cheating scandal — Cheating allegations have changed how chess is played, just as the game is shifting into looking a lot more like esports.| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Filing: Apple settles its lawsuit against an ex-employee accused of stealing trade secrets and sharing them with the media; he will pay Apple an undisclosed sum — Apple has settled its lawsuit against Simon Lancaster, a former design architect, who the company accused of stealing trade secrets and sharing them with a journalist.
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